Direction indicator for motor vehicles



J. GOLDECHMIDT DIRECTION INDICATOR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES Au 31,1926. v 1,598,276'

Filed Dec. 28, 1925 Patented Aug. 31, 1926.

UNETE PATNT OFFICE.

JULIUS GOLDSCHMIDT, F CASSEL, GERMANY.

DIRECTION INDICATOR FOR MOTOR VEHICLES.

Application filed December 28, 1925, Serial No. "78,059, and in Germany July 17, 1925.

This invention relates to a direction indiinto th horizontal, operative position, prescator of the kind used on motor vehicles and sure is exerted by the tube 8 on the abutment composed of an indicator arm which is con 7, and this pressure finally overcomes the trolled by means of a Bowden wire. pressure of the spring 11 and allows the latch In the usual devices of this kind the indito enter into engagement with the notch in 4.5

cator arm is supported in its horizontal pothe sheave 6. The latch is locked in this position direct by the Bowden wire, and the sition by the usual engagement of the operstrength of the latter is not always equal to ating lever with the casing 5, and the turnthe stress to which it is subjected when the ing moment of the arm will be supported 10 arm sways under the jerks ot the travelling by the latch instead of the wire. Overvehicle. straining of the latter will thus be effectively The object of the present invention is to prevented. relieve the Bowden wire of excessive stress, As soon as the wire tension is relieved, and the invention consists in arranging the the latch 8 is retracted by the spring 11 so 15 abutment tor the outer Bowden element so as to allow the indicator arm to drop. that it changes its position under the stress, The device may be modified to suit difand adapting it to act as a latch for locking ferent conditions of employment. the arm in operated position. I claim I The invention is illustrated in the accom- 1. In a direction indicator, the combina- 20 panying drawing in which Figure 1 repretion with an indicator arm, a Bowden wire sents a side vieW of the device, partly in secfor operating said arm, and a tube for guidtion, and Figure 2 is a detail view showing ing said wire, of a slidable abutment for said features of construction. tube, and means operated by said abutment The indicator arm 1 is adjustable about a under the pressure of the tube for locking shaft 2 and is operated by means of a sheave the indicator arm in operated position.

6 and a Bowden wire 4 which turns the 2. In a direction indicator, the combinasheave together with the arm. The Bowden tion with an indicator arm, a Bowden wire wire is controlled in the usual manner by for operating said arm, and a tube for guidmeans of a lever and a drum contained in a ing said wire, of a notched sheave control 30 casing 5, and it is guided in a flexible tube 3. ling said arm, and a slidable abutment ar- According to the invention, the abutment ranged so as to support the tube and so as 7 for the tube 3 is arranged to slide in a casto move under the pressure of the latter ing 10 and adapted to act as a latch for into engagement with the notched sheave locking the arm 1 in the horizontal position. for locking the latter and the indicator arm For this purpose the sheave 6 is formed with in operated position.

a notch for engagement with the inner end 3. The structure claimed in claim 1 and 8 of the abutment 7 A spring 11, which a spring arranged so as to support the abutbears against a collar 9 on the abutment, ment and retract it from the sheave when the holds the latter normally out of engagement wire tension is relieved.

40 with the sheave. On the arm 1 being turned JULIUS GOLDSCHMIDT. 

